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The Baltimore City Council on Monday gave preliminary approval to a bill that would require certain contractors to hire city residents for at least half of their new hires. The city's law department says the measure would be unconstitutional, and businesses say it would be a burden. The final vote will be June 3.

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The Baltimore City Council has preliminarily approved a bill that would require certain contractors to hire residents for at least half of new hires. The city's Law Department says the measure is unconstitutional, and businesses say it would be a burden. A final vote is scheduled June 3.

The future of job boards will be in semantic search and matching technology that produces more relevant search results for job seekers and employers, Jakub Zavrel writes. "The nice thing is that relevance is directly correlated with conversion. Pay per hire, not per eyeball, is the appropriate business model for the new game," he writes.

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The Tradeshow Week Fastest 50 event, to be held Nov. 7 to Nov. 9 in Baltimore, will honor Chris Brown, the EVP for conventions and business operations at the NAB, for his leadership of the NAB Show and NAB Radio Show, among other career accomplishments.